[Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs

Dave J. Hala Jr. cialug@cialug.org
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:22:08 -0500


Yeah, mediacom obviously took some lessons from MS.

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:15, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Haven't you seen Mediacom's FUD commercials?  What good is another 
> government controlled industry?  Didn't you learn from ICN?!?
> 
> :)
> 
> -barry
> 
> 
> timwilson011@mchsi.com wrote:
> > Mediacom, basically because that's what I signed up with 4+ years ago.  At that
> > time, DSL couldn't give the bandwidth cable could.  It still can't, but it is
> > much better than it used to be.  I've been toying with the idea of switching to
> > DSL (and InternetSolver), but just haven't been pushed (read: pissed off) enough
> > I guess.
> > 
> > I wonder whatever happened to multiple ISPs on cable...
> > 
> > --
> > Tim W.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>Fellow Lugites:
> >>
> >>I, like many of you, run servers out of my home.   I have a mail and web 
> >>server, and I guess my mythtv qualifies as a server, as I remotely can 
> >>schedule recordings via apache, so reading slashdot's link today: 
> >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/12/ifpi_drafts_code_of_conduct/
> >>rattled me in my socks.  
> >>
> >>After comcast's leaving a bad taste in my mouth in NJ i swore never to 
> >>be bogged down by such a repressive eula (You saw him repressing me 
> >>didn't ya?!?!?) and found Freese-Notis here in Des Moines.  Bridged  IP 
> >>from Quest, static IP, an agreement that lets me do what I want with my 
> >>service, blah blah, blah ISP Nirvana.........
> >>
> >>So this question is posed:  What ISP do you use and why?
> >>
> >>-Theron
> >>
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